Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige on Which Avenger Will Never Return

Well, if you've seen Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron then you know who we're talking about here. If you haven't ... why did you click on this?! Bookmark this page and come back and read it after you have because SPOILERS follow!

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Marvel Studios president and Avengers 2 producer Kevin Feige recently participated in a post-Ultron screening Q&A at the University of Southern California during which time he was asked whether Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) could ever return despite dying at the end of the movie.

According to the reddit user/student covering the Q&A, Feige informed the crowd that "Quiksilver is DEAD. 100%, he's not coming back any time soon, there are no plans. No LMD [life model decoy], no escaping bullets, no retcon. (Feige) said he is dead and wanted to make sure people understood that."

The reddit user also noted, "During filming of original Avengers they were already planning AoU - they knew Quiksilver [sic] would die, Vision and Scarlet Witch would have a 'moment,' and that the gem was in the scepter."

So it would appear that Marvel has essentially ceded Quicksilver's big screen future to Fox's X-Men movies. Days of Future Past's Evan Peters is expected to reprise his role as the speedster in 2016's X-Men: Apocalypse.

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Director Joss Whedon did recently reveal that while they shot an ending where Quicksilver actually survived, he opted against using it because "it felt very disingenuous for me, especially the second time around, to make what I refer to as 'a war movie' and say that there is no price and everybody walks away. In this movie, we’re saying, 'Prove to me that you guys are heroes.' And he’s the guy that does it."